Julie Pellegrin

• CSIL

The European Union (EU), especially in the context of Cohesion Policy (CP), has played a crucial role in developing and promoting policy evaluation practices across its Member States. Evaluation systems across the Member States have been established to assess CP investments. Remarkably, the use of evaluation research and its contribution to stimula...

This Smart Guide to cluster policy monitoring and evaluation was prepared for the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Internal Market, Industry, Entrepreneurship and SMEs by Julie Pellegrin (CSIL), Mark Spinoglio (SPI), René Wintjes (MERIT), Pierre Hausemer (VVA) and Clarissa Amichetti (CSIL) as part of a service contract (EASME/COSME/201...

Regional innovation systems (RISs) are increasingly emerging in less developed areas. Based on the case study of the mechatronic cluster in the Italian southern region, Apulia, this paper analyses how institutions have managed to promote the establishment of a RIS in disadvantaged areas. Through a longitudinal analysis over more than half a century...

In 2015, the Regional Studies Association (RSA) celebrated 50 years and one of the keywords of this (hi)story is “impactful”. Having an impact requires to be able to bring research-based knowledge to policymakers moving out of the academic ‘Ivory Tower’ and engaging in policy debate, thus acknowledging the societal role of research. Yet, this requi...

This study, provided by Policy Department A at the request of the ITRE committee, aims to shed light on the potential applicability of data acquired from the EU Galileo and Copernicus satellite systems in both the public and private sector, and on the reasons why such potential still remains largely underutilized. The regulatory framework, market c...

This study, provided by Policy Department A at the request of the ITRE committee, aims to shed light on the potential applicability of data acquired from the EU Galileo and Copernicus satellite systems in both the public and private sector, and on the reasons why such potential still remains largely underutilized. The regulatory framework, market c...

This study, provided by Policy Department A at the request of the ITRE committee, aims to shed light on the potential applicability of data acquired from the EU Galileo and Copernicus satellite systems in both the public and private sector, and on the reasons why such potential still remains largely underutilized. The regulatory framework, market c...

This paper discusses some conditions under which the Cohesion Policy of the European Union can effectively contribute to enhance R&I in Europe and the extent to which it offers a relevant framework for devising Research & Innovation policies at regional level overcoming possible tensions and maximising potentials for synergy. To do so, the paper ma...

Structural change and globalisation are major factors influencing the competitiveness of regional economies. During the period 2000-2006, the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) intervened in favour of European Union (EU) regions that were faced by a variety of structural challenges (declining industrial areas, rural economies, fishing depend...

Abstract This paper, presented at the Sixth European Conference on Evaluation of Cohesion Policy (Warsaw, 30 November-1 December 2009), addresses the specific case of regional case studies, i.e., case studies concerned with the effects of a SF programme implemented in a region. In the following, we draw on the concrete experience of the ex post eva...

This article explores the conceptual and empirical underpinnings that characterize the EU approach to regional development policy. It shows how the systemic approach to innovation has been unanimously embraced in a context in which regional research and technology development and innovation strategies have been progressively promoted as the privile...

Le présent rapport rassemble les résultats de la réflexion engagée par le Groupe de Travail «Evaluation des aides à la recherche et à l’innovation dans les entreprises» dans le cadre du programme Prométhée II. Différentes tâches ont été réalisées en vue de recueillir les informations nécessaires à une première évaluation du dispositif: • Recueil de...

Ce rapport présente les résultats d’une analyse des aides publiques à destination des entreprises en matière de recherche et d’innovation en région wallonne. Cette étude fait partie du Programme wallon PROMETHEE II et contribue à un des six grands objectifs « Evaluer les outils publics d’aide à la recherche et à l’innovation »1. Dans l’esprit de la...

The article looks at Outward Processing Traffic (OPT) between the European Union (EU) and Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) to provide evidence on whether and how international trade and production contribute to raising CEECs' competitiveness. Adopting a "learning and innovation approach", it finds that OPT has been characterised by it...

An analysis of OPT relations between the EU and CEECs makes clear two fundamental features characterising the development of economic interdependence between the EU and the transition economies. These include the fact that economic interdependence develops at the same time in the very politicised framework of opportunities and constraints shaped by...

At first sight, the opening up of Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs) unleashes unprecedented potential for accelerated growth and enhanced competitiveness across Europe. By rendering ‘readily’ available markets and cheap skilled labour, liberalisation enables Western firms to realise economies of scale and scope as well as providing the...

Besides testing theories that examine European integration in its political aspect, the OPT example offers an opportunity to apply a further set of literature to the case of CEECs’ transition economies. This is comprised of international trade and international production theories and, in general, theories of regional economic integration. Whereas...

The picture of OPT relations is very different at firm-level and in aggregate statistical terms. Thus it is necessary to go beyond a statistical analysis and conduct a more qualitative assessment of the very nature of OPT partnerships that are concluded between EU and CEECs firms. The ‘aggregate’ dependence of CEECs’ trade on OPT, highlighted in Ch...

This chapter proposes to analyse the logic underlying the adoption of the OPT measure. The objective is to identify vested interests aligned in reaction to CEECs’ opening up. Enshrining into lawsuch an apparently anodyne mechanism – consisting as it does in discriminating between the imports of local producers and the ‘re-imports’ resulting from th...

An analysis of the development of OPT in CEECs is particularly heuristic in the sense that it provides extremely rich material from which insight into different aspects of the dynamics of regional integration in Europe can be inferred. Different findings were presented in the previous chapters which concern CEECs’ chance of catching up in the conte...

Outward processing traffic (OPT) is an important feature characterising patterns of East–West economic interdependence. Indeed, OPT may prove relevant, if not decisive, in influencing the terms under which such interdependence develops. Notwithstanding this, the now vast literature on CEECs’ trade (and production) specialisation is characterised by...

This paper offers a first assessment of the contribution of international production to the dynamics of regional integration in Europe. After very high expectations, there is increasing scepticism concerning the role of foreign direct investment as an engine of growth in the region. On the basis of often implicit cross regional comparisons, it is a...

Outward Processing Traffic (OPT) agreements refer to the delegation by EU firms of certain stages of textile and clothing production to Central and Eastern European Countries (CEECs). It should be appreciated as very valuable in the transitional process of trade reorientation. Short-term advantages resulting from OPT are evident for both parties. L...

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"Die vorliegende Studie bietet eine erste Bewertung der Auswirkungen internationaler Produktion auf die Dynamik regionaler Integration in Europa. Was die Rolle ausländischer Direktinvestitionen angeht, so sind die anfänglich sehr hohen Erwartungen mittlerweile der Skepsis gewichen. Auf der Grundlage oftmals impliziter regionsübergreifender Vergleic...

In a comprehensive investigation of career patterns and vertical occupational mobility, fifty executives and fifty supervisors were asked to evaluate the relative importance of several informal factors in bureaucratic promotion. Both groups agreed that national origins, religion, political activity, and membership in secret societies are presently...

In exploring the thesis that attitudes and values are basic determinants of career patterns, this paper empirically identifies and analyzes differential definitions of career success held by top-level executives and first-line supervisors. The executive, needing esteem and personal accomplishment, regards the achievement of high position essential...

In a southern metropolis absente-owned corporations play a vital role in civic affairs and policies. Executives, in representing their organizations and in furthering their own careers, seek to protect the corporation's interests and to foster and maintain conservative, business-oriented values and policies. The executive has a variety of motivatio...